“They call it kintsugi. The pot is shattered, then carefully reassembled with a resin mixed with gold. It symbolizes how we must incorporate our wounds into who we are, rather than try to merely repair and forget them.”
-David Wong
I have been waiting a long time to share this with my grieving friends. The concept of kintsugi is one of the most beautiful examples of resilience and post-traumatic growth I've ever come across. I love that what could have been discarded or dismissed as a broken vessel was actually made more beautiful and valuable by a master potter - not by hiding the cracks and flaws, but by glorifying them.
This Christmas, in the letter I inserted in December's Rainbow Box, I shared with subscribers my witness that the Great Potter wept when your heart broke. He felt your loss too. But He isn’t going to leave you lying shattered on the floor. He intends to lift you, and heal your wounded heart with celestial bonds of gold.
Someday, all that is wrong will be made right, all that hurts will be healed, all that is broken will be mended, and all that are apart will be together again.
Until that day, may you feel His peace and rest in His love. And may this Christmas remind you that to Him who was broken for us, you are more valuable, precious, and beautiful than anything silver or gold.
-Mary